Sooner or later, it had to happen.

Gladly.. :) There are actualy two big radials in the pipeline and the second is going to be amazing.. The first is the Wing42 Boeing 247. Made in 1933 it was America's first modern air liner. It's a low wing twin engined monocoque design with a top speed of 189 mph. it's beautiful so far and I havent made it oast measuring everything yet ::LOL::.. The 247 is also the B-17s daddy, and it becomes quite obvious when you see it.. Now there were twomodels of the 247. The first had a windscreen that was tited forward. This was supposed to have cut down on the reflections from inside the cockpit and it did, but it picked up reflections from the ground and surrounding environment. Sort of a damned if you do thing. We have focused on the d model which has the classic b-17 style windscreen. Both aircraft are simply beautiful in my book though. The 247 was also in an offhanded way responsible for the DC-2. Trans Western Airlines ordered over a hundred b-247s, but boeing wanted to keep the plane for its own airlines which today we call United.. TWA took the challenge and approached Douglas, and the DC-2 and slightly later the DC-3 were born.. The rest is history :)
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https://wing42.com/boeing-247/?v=7516fd43adaa

The second plane I cant talk about quite yet beyond thatit was also made in the 1930s also, and was made famous by a guy looking for a waxy substance in the depths of the south american jungles ;) ..

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lagaffe said:
In the Big radials It seems that you forget the Canso PBY-5A on which French-VFR is working.
Some pictures has been published on the official forum two months ago and also on FSDeveloper:
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Ah!. No Sir.. I did not forget. I quite simply never knew of it. Neither am I working with the company called Big Radials at this time. I have no inside information on what they are doing or planning. Currently I m teamed up with SWS and wing42. for SWs I am working on a Zenith CH-701 which was just submitted to Microsoft Market. Outside of Sws and Wing42 i am a mushroom. I am very ill and limited in my capabilities as to what i caan get done in a day, spending most of my time watching Narrowboat video logs from great Britain as i find them relaxing and enjoyable. So, my apologies, but I never knew of the Canso PBY as all my time in sim is spent developing projects I've been asked to help with, and truthfully, even that is becoming more limited all the time..
Beautiful job on the engines btw. I will look forward to your Cat with a great deal of excitement..
 
Hi Pam,

Sorry but there is a confusion due to the fact that I used a capital letter for the term big (and you note a lower case for radial, the tablet's built-in dictionary transformed my text).
I was not referring to the "Big Radials" team and his stuff (P-40 and Niewport 17) but simply to the planes with a big star engine and PBY-5A is for me a "big radial", i think you agree with this ?

An other tim, sorry but it was not a reproach, but since we were talking about aircraft with a star engine, I just wanted to mention this ongoing project that I had not presented on SOH, because I think that publishing the same article on several forums is rather redundant and serves no purpose: the world of developers on FS is quite small.
 
lagaffe said:
Hi Warchild,

Sorry but there is a confusion due to the fact that I used a capital letter for the term big (and you note a lower case for radial, the tablet's built-in dictionary transformed my text).
I was not referring to the "Big Radials" team and his stuff (P-40 and Niewport 17) but simply to the planes with a big star engine and PBY-5A is for me a "big radial", i think you agree with this ?

An other tim, sorry but it was not a reproach, but since we were talking about aircraft with a star engine, I just wanted to mention this ongoing project that I had not presented on SOH, because I think that publishing the same article on several forums is rather redundant and serves no purpose: the world of developers on FS is quite small.
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Indeed it is.. :(
 
Bushpounder said:
Thanks Caz. I knew you had to cut some plastic and fingers eventually. You're too good at it to just park it forever. How are the wife and kids doing? I guess they are all grown up by now! Hell, we've known each other for almost 30 years. They were little then - about my son's age I think. I'll toss some pics of some of my builds on here in another forum when I get some pictures. Almost done with all my 109s. Had about 15 of them to build. Modeling is just getting so expensive to do now (my way - aftermarket crap!) but worth it. I'll go grab your sceneries. Thanks for the freeware. All of mine was always freeware. Strongly believe in it - for the fun of it!! Talk soon, my old friend! Don
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Make sure for KDAN, you get the latest version, 1.1.
 
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